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The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman
The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman : being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation / by Richard Steele.The husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman : being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation / by Richard Steele.
London: printed by M.S., 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But to be a little more particular, from the 1Author of this employment we may observe, That its sweet to belled and put into a ⟨p. 11⟩Calling by the Lord. As our Father Adam here†, God took him by the hand and led him into his Calling. He that is disposed by the Lord, is well provided for. Hagar was hard posed, Gen. 16. 8. Hagar (saith God) whence comest thou, and whither wilt thou go? She was disposing her self without her Maker, or her Masters leave, and so back again she is sent.
But to be a little more particular, from the 1Author of this imployment we may observe, That its sweet to beled and put into a ⟨p. 11⟩Calling by the Lord. As our Father Adam here†, God took him by the hand and led him into his Calling. He that is disposed by the Lord, is well provided for. Hagar was hard pos'd, Gen. 16. 8. Hagar (saith God) whence comest thou, and whither wilt thougo? She was disposing her self without her Maker, or her Masters leave, and so back again she is sent.
- 1§. 3. A second Observation.
- †By an Angel, a• Aug. Perer.